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Reprint edition, 1949, by special arrangement with Bobbs Merrill. Good+ / Fair. Book is square with solid binding and sharp corners. Glue stains on front and rear pastedowns, otherwise clean and unmarked. The dustjacket is clean and bright, but torn at lower right front with chips and wear at extremities. Protected in mylar. The story of four generations of the Dodd family and their eventual confrontation with issues of water distribution in the Central Valley of California. Carefully packaged and shipped in a box.

First Edition, First Printing. An x-library copy with all the usual library markings, including a pocket on FFEP. Spine is cocked, but pages are firmly attached. The text is clean and unmarked but for a stamp at the bottom of the last page. The unclipped dustjacket is protected in a mylar cover, which has been taped to the boards. The jacket itself is clean and bright, but has a library sticker near the bottom of the spine. This is Spillane's twelfth novel in the Mike Hammer series. Carefully packaged and shipped in a box.

First Edition, First Printing. Good in a Good dustjacket. An x-library copy with the usual library stickers and stamps, but no pocket. Binding is solid, text is clean and unmarked with the exception of a stamp at bottom of last page. The dustjacket is clean with no chips or tears, but has library stickers attached (see photos). Protected in mylar cover which is taped to the boards. In 2017 Dodgers won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and a British Book Prize in the mystery/thriller category. Author's first novel. Carefully packaged and shipped in a box.

First Edition, First Printing. Good in a Good dustjacket. A withdrawn ex-library copy with usual markings and pocket on rear end paper. Boards are solid and binding is tight. The text is clean and unmarked. Dustjacket is bright and unclipped with original price of $5.95 intact. Protected in mylar cover, taped to the boards. "The influences that shaped Dreiser's life and work are clearly defined and explored and traced through all his major work." Carefully packaged and shipped in a box.

FIrst Edition, First Printing. Good in a Good dustjacket. A withdrawn ex-library book with usual stamps and card on rear end paper. Binding is solid, book has very little wear and text is clean and unmarked. The dustjacket is unclipped with orginal $24.95 price intact, taped to the boards in a protective mylar cover. Carefully packaged and shipped in a box. "He was one of America's greatest storytellers. The Young Lions, Rich Man Poor Man, The Girls in Their Summer Dresses...novels, essays, dramas, screenplays and some of the finest short stories of our century...Irwin Shaw wrote them all." Carefully packaged and shipped in a box.

First Edition, First Printing. Good in a Good dustjacket. A withdrawn ex-library copy with usual stamps and card at rear end paper. Binding is solid and text is clean and unmarked. Dustjacket is unclipped with original price of $7.95 intact, taped to the boards with a protective mylar cover. A good reading copy. Cowley discusses his contempories of the Lost Generation: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, John Dos Passos, E.E. Cummings, Thornton Wilder, William Faulkner, Thomas Wolfe and Hart Crane. Carefully packaged and shipped in a box.

First Edition, First Printing. Very Good, no dustjacket. Quarter red cloth over grey cloth with black and silver lettering on the front board and spine, with red publisher's topstain. Binding is solid, minor wear at head and foot of spine, one coner is lightly bumped. The interior is clean and free of any markings. The second in Catton's three volume Centennial History of the Civil War. Carefully packaged and shipped in a box.

FIrst Edition, First Printing. An x-library copy with the usual stickers and stamps, including pocket at rear endpaper. Binding is solid, text is clean and free of any markings. The dustjacket is price-clipped, with some soiling but overall in good shape, protected in a mylar cover which is taped to the boards. Includes a scholarly analysis of Allen's films, a bibliograpy, index and a filmography beginning with What's New Pussycat (1969) and ending with Hannah and Her Sisters (1986). Carefully packaged and shipped in a box.

First Edition, First Printing. A former library book with the usual stamps and markings, but no pocket. Book is square, binding is solid and the text is clean and unmarked. The unclipped dustjacket is crisp and bright with no chips or tears, but has library stickers attached (see photos). Protected in mylar cover which is taped to the boards. The author's eighth novel tells the story of a Franciscan priest struggling to walk a moral path through the shifting and fatal realities of an isolated Mexican village. "Philip Caputo is one of the few absolutely essential writers at work today." - Robert Olen Butler. Carefully packaged and shipped in a box.

First Edition, FIrst Printing. Blue cloth with silver lettering on spine. A withdrawn x-library copy with stamps on top edge and title page, library pocket on rear endpapaper. The interior is otherwise clean and unmarked and the binding is solid. The unclipped dustjacket shows original $8.95 price and is taped to the boards. Protected in mylar. Written in the 1940's as a second part to Black Boy, Wright's acclaimed autobiography, and published here for the first time with an afterward by Wright scholar and biographer Michel Fabre. Carefully packaged and shipped in a box.

First Edition, First Printing. Good / no dustjacket. Worn at head and foot of spine with some fading, top edge is sunned. Book is square and the interior is clean with no markings of any kind. A coming-of-age novel about an ambitious young woman pursuing her artistic dreams in New York City from Pulitzer Prize winner Herman Wouk. Basis for the 1958 film with Gene Kelly and Natalie Wood. Carefully packaged and shipped in a box.

Fourth printing of the first edition, July 1927. Condition: Good / No dustjacket. Blue cloth with orange type and reverse block. Hinge is loose, but pages are firmly attached. Moderate overall wear and pages are age-darkened. Boards are solid and text is clean and unmarked. In 1930, Sinclair Lewis became the first American awarded the Nobel Prize for literature "...for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humor, new types of characters." Mantrap was the basis for the 1926 silent film comedy with Clara Bow. Carefully packaged and shipped in a box.

First Edition, FIrst Printing. Good in a Good dustjacket. A withdrawn ex-library copy with usual stamps and markings, but no library pocket. Solid boards and very tight binding. Text is clean and unmarked. The dustjacket is bright, unclipped with original $25.00 price intact and taped to the boards in a protective mylar cover. Carefully packaged and shipped in a box.

First Edition, First Printing. Good in a Good dustjacket. A withdrawn ex-library book, appears to have had little use. Usual library stamps with card on rear end paper. Boards are sturdy and book is square; the text is clean and unmarked. A large, heavy book including 24 pages of photographs. The dustjacket is unclipped with original $15.00 price intact, taped to the boards in a protective mylar cover. A good reading copy. "In its almost 800 pages of misery and exaltation, John Unterecker's remarkably truthful biography of Hart Crane keeps up a momentum provided in part by the passion of its subject but in part as well by a powerful accumulation of mesmerizing detail."- New York Times. Carefully packaged and shipped in a box.

A January 1937 reprint of the 1936 first edition. Good / no dustjacket. Blue boards with decorative orange title and illustration. End papers illustrated with 1775 - 1783 maps of the Mohawk Valley. Text is clean and without markings. Front hinge cracked, but pages firmly attached. A sound copy showing wear at spine and corners. Previous owner name neatly written at top of FFEP. Basis for the classic 1939 John Ford film with Henry Fonda and Claudette Colbert. Carefully packaged and shipped in a box.

Very Good / no dustjacket. Reprint edition of two outstanding fictional biographies: Lust for Life (1936) and Immortal Wife (1944). Black cloth with red-banded gilt title on spine and publishers red topstain. Solid binding, square with lightly bumped corners. Interior is clean, bright and free of any markings. Carefully packaged and shipped in a box.

First Edition, First Printing. Very Good in a Very Good dustjacket. Orange & black cloth boards with gilt lettering. Tight binding, square with sharp corners and minimal shelf wear. Interior is clean, bright and free of any markings. The dustjacket is unclipped; the original price of $17.95 shows a faded mark-over (see photo) and there is a crease on the front flap. Minor wear and chipping at extremities, now protected in a mylar cover. The definitive biography of Hammett, written with the cooperation of Lillian Hellman. Carefully packaged and shipped in a box.

Very Good in a Good dustjacket. A book club edition with "first edition" stated on the copyright page and a copy of the BOMC news laid in. Black boards with silver lettering on spine. Binding is solid, interior is clean with no markings of any kind. Dustjacket is not clipped, but has no price and shows chipping and wear at extremities. Protected in mylar. James Gould Cozzens was later a Pulitzer Prize winner for his 1948 novel, Guard of Honor. Carefully packaged and shipped in a box.

First Edition, First Printing. A former library book with stamps on front paste down and FFEP. Binding is solid and the text is clean and unmarked, though somewhat age-darkened. The unclipped dustjacket shows original $2.75 price, has a library sticker on spine and is taped to the boards. Protected in mylar. "This novel is based on many events both major and minor that actually occurred in the life of Elizabeth Seton, Foundress of the Daughters of Charity in North America, as described by her in letters, notes and journals kept during this momentous period." Carefully packaged and shipped in a box.

First Edition, First Printing. Near Fine in a Fine dustjacket. Protected in mylar. First novel from Marshall, a former St. Louis Globe Democrat sports writer. He gives an insider's view of the world of professional football in this NFL thriller. Carefully packaged and shipped in a box.